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Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by [Kim Scott]

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* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running
* Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide
* A Hudson and Indigo Best Book of the Year
* Recommended by Shona Brown, Rachel Hollis, Jeff Kinney, Daniel Pink, Sheryl Sandberg, and Gretchen Rubin

Radical Candor has been embraced around the world by leaders of every stripe at companies of all sizes. Now a cultural touchstone, the concept has come to be applied to a wide range of human relationships.

The idea is simple: You don't have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor—avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy—you can be kind and clear at the same time.

Kim Scott was a highly successful leader at Google before decamping to Apple, where she developed and taught a management class. Since the original publication of Radical Candor in 2017, Scott has earned international fame with her vital approach to effective leadership and co-founded the Radical Candor executive education company, which helps companies put the book's philosophy into practice.

Radical Candor is about caring personally and challenging directly, about soliciting criticism to improve your leadership and also providing guidance that helps others grow. It focuses on praise but doesn't shy away from criticism—to help you love your work and the people you work with.

Radically Candid relationships with team members enable bosses to fulfill their three core responsibilities:
1. Create a culture of Compassionate Candor
2. Build a cohesive team
3. Achieve results collaboratively

Required reading for the most successful organizations, Radical Candor has raised the bar for management practices worldwide.

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"Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives. Kim Scott's insights―based on her experience, keen observational intelligence and analysis--will help you be a better leader and create a more effective organization." ―Sheryl Sandberg, author of LEAN IN --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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KIM SCOTT is the co-founder of an executive education firm and workplace comedy series, The Feedback Loop, based on her perennially bestselling book, Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without Losing your Humanity. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led operations teams for AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick at Google. Kim was a senior policy advisor at the FCC, managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo, started a diamond cutting factory in Moscow, and was an analyst on the Soviet Companies Fund. She lives with her family in Silicon Valley. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07P9LPXPT
Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Press; 1st edition (Oct. 1 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 14216 KB
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Kim Scott is the author of Just Work: Get *t Done Fast and Fair as well as Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. Trier Bryant and Kim co-founded the company Just Work to help organizations and individuals create more equitable workplaces. Jason Rosoff and Kim co-founded the company Radical Candor to help rid the world of bad bosses. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google. Earlier in her career Kim managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow. She lives with her family in Silicon Valley.

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Bill M

Tell it like it is.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 14, 2022

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This fully revised and updated version includes a bonus chapter with lessons learned from a few years of implementation in real world settings. Lots of great takeaways but one of my favourites is “You can’t give a damn about others if you don’t give a damn about yourself.” Highly recommended for anyone in or aspiring to a management position.

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More Than Just A New Leadership Model.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 2, 2017

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If your looking for language to decipher the "why" of all ups and downs of your past work experience has delivered, "Radical Candor" provides the DNA to unravel specific factors/pitfalls that contribute to success and failure for individuals/teams. With brutal honesty, Kim Scott pairs vignettes of her life experience to demonstrate the core teachings of Radical Candor; translating those fundamental ideas into an amazing book that is easy to understand and apply.

Radical Candor is more than just a new leadership model, it pins down basic behaviours and skills to cultivate and the creation of work environments that not only feel right but work right - for the benefit of all concerned. I wish I had been introduced to these learnings early on in my mgmt. training - they would have made a critical difference not only in my own experience but the flow/success of others who were also impacted by my influence.

This is not just going to be a "one read bestseller" for me - it's not just a title that will continue to influence and elevate the success of workplace environment for years to come; it's an essential framework that can masterfully be applied to all areas of your life so that it can thrive!

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This book is about building relationships with your employees and providing guidance to deliver better results. Here is the core concept

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 29, 2018

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I read Radical Candor by Kim Scott. This book is about building relationships with your employees and providing guidance to deliver better results.

Here is the core concept:
Bosses guide a team to achieve results. Focus on building relationships with your direct reports, which will affect your team's culture and determine the quality of everything that follows. Two dimensions for developing trust: care personally and challenge directly. Caring personally is about acknowledging we are all people with lives and aspirations beyond our shared work and finding time to get to know each other on a human level. Challenging others and encouraging them to challenge you shows that you care about what is and is not going well, and that you're committed to fixing mistakes that you or others have made. These strategies need to adapt to cultural differences between individuals, teams, companies, and countries.

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Jason MacKenzie

Kim shows the read that it IS possible to care about people personally while creating an environment where we expect the best from one another

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 29, 2017

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This book should be required reading for all leaders. Kim shows the read that it IS possible to care about people personally while creating an environment where we expect the best from one another.

One of my favourite takeaways is how Kim clarifies that we should be managing growth rather than potential. Not everyone is on a steep growth curve and that's perfectly OK. In fact, as I was reading this section of the book, I was prompted to email a former employee of mine. She was the definition of a Rock Star in Kim's parlance - as stable as the Rock of Gibraltar. Radical Candor helped me appreciate her even more than I did while we worked together.

Thank you Kim. I've long known that management by diktat needs to die. You helped me develop a better understanding of how to help kill it!

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KAllard

Best management book I’ve ever read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 3, 2019

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Bought this book to continously improve my management style and get tips and tools on how to be better boss to my team. This book does not disappoint! It provides concrete concepts that are easy to implement and provides the author’s real life experiences when working at Google and Apple. This book is one of a kind.. it is absolutely not pretentious and will speak to anyone. It is life changing. I absolutely love it and I recommend to all the good, the bad and ugly managers that want to improve themselves and team 😉

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LorneInKelowna

Be honest and treat your employees with respect

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 19, 2018

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Good book. Ended up listening to audio book for part of it. Not sure all the observations are earth shattering, but big take away is you aren’t helping your business or your employee’s development/career by not being honest with them. Don’t need to be mean but need to be honest... don’t let things continue. Step up and address them. Employee may be waiting for this honest feedback too. Worth a read but don’t expect revelations that are going to overpower any good management style you may already have... just a few new tools for the kit.

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Brent Mauti

Very Informative!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 1, 2021

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An easy read with thoughtful guidance on how to better your leadership qualities. The examples were rooted in real life experiences and I have a lot of takeaways which I can morph into my daily leadership performance.

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KW Jolly

Not much new here....

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 1, 2020

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Some thoughtful explanations and examples of ideas and concepts that have been around for a while. If you are not a fan of how Silicon Valley does business, this book probably isn’t for you.

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Ali

Be nice to people and Listen - there - saved you a few hours

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 1, 2021

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This is the worst book I have read in 2020-2021. The author spends 80% of the time jamming the title 'Radical Candor' down our throats (A model that isn't half as revolutionary as it tries to make out), and the remaining 10% name dropping all the places she worked with and who she rubbed shoulders with. This would have been inspiring and nice but didn't come across as humble and empowering. The remaining 10% was useful and have included it in the headline. Disappointed as I was looking forward to it, but I would suggest avoiding. Shame.

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F.M.

An influential book, a necessary one

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 4, 2022

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'Radical Candor' is a book about an approach to management that combines sincerity with care when dealing with the team that a manager must lead.

It lives up to its name; it is a candid look at the act of management and it proposes a useful model, peppered with useful and funny stories from the author's experiences.

I consider this book at must-read for any people manager (especially in IT). By no means sufficient, it succeeds in proposing a way of thinking at management that may bring surprising positive results.

Highly recommended.

3 people found this helpful

Antony M

Excellent and useful - a must read for managers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 20, 2017

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The core framework this book is built around is strong, and the book strengthens it throughout with practical advice and examples. A near perfect example of a business book that gets to its point and doesn't waste your time with padding.

Feedback is such a simple thing, but so hard for individuals and teams to get right without conscious practice. Radical Candor is an accessible and compelling companion for anyone trying to improve this aspect of their work.

I highlighted many passages and shared them with colleagues as I read this book - a sign that reading it was time well-spent.

18 people found this helpful

Patrick

Tiny font, moans too much, gave up

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 18, 2021

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Paperback is printed in a font so small it's quite uncomfortable to read. I only managed to get through the first 10 pages (which Kim seems to spend airing her grievances about how other people have interpreted her book), so I gave up. I get the impression that this book would contain a lot of waffle for what is a very simple message.

7 people found this helpful

PAUL G.

Imagine having to write a book to tell people to be nice

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 21, 2021

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A book written by someone who didn't do what has been written about in the book for their career. Which is be nice to people. And be nice so it makes your job easier. A terribly selfish reason to be nice to people.

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